The Joy of Freedom by Fouad Al-Shobaki

Written by: Hamada Pharaoh

For every Palestinian prisoner in the colony’s detention centers, there is a story, narration, sacrifice, and an act of resistance, raising the head, for the Arabs, Muslims, and Christians, as a price for freedom and independence, and restoring dignity, rights, homes, land, and what is on them to their owners, whether they are steadfast residents on the land of their homeland, which they have no homeland other than, or if they are Among those who have been displaced and expelled, who have suffered from alienation and are still looking forward to returning, as there is no alternative to their land and property in Palestine.

Fouad Al-Shobaki, one of these detained prisoners, spent his entire 17-year arbitrary sentence in the colony's detention centers, and they released him after the end of his sentence.

Fouad Al-Shobaki with Marwan Al-Barghouti, the most prominent Fatah activist who paid the price for the bombing of the second intifada in 2000, participating in its activities, and even leading it, in response to the decision of the Palestinian President, in response to the failure of the Camp David negotiations.

In July 2000, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat participated in the Camp David negotiations in the face of Yehud Barak, the head of the colonial government, under the auspices of US President Clinton. Hebron.

The Camp David negotiations lasted from 12 to 17 July 2000, but they failed and did not achieve what was required to address the issues of the final stage related to Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, security, water and other titles for completing Palestinian independence.

Abu Ammar returned from Washington with his conviction that the Israelis and Americans did not and will not respond to the minimum requirements of Palestinian rights, the non-completion of the Israeli withdrawal and the reluctance to respond to the issues of Jerusalem, the refugee valley and the removal of settlements, so he decided to activate the struggle.

Abu Ammar returned carrying a description launched by the American-Israeli coalition that he is "not a partner in making peace and settlement in accordance with the Israeli expansionist interests, and he refuses to submit to the demands of the colony and Washington and its unfair conditions."

Abu Ammar decided to cooperate and coordinate with Ahmed Yassin and the leaders of Hamas, and direct attention and priority towards combative action against the colonial forces and their tools. She is the one who carried out these operations, and this is why Sharon described him to US President Bush in April 2004, as like a revolving door, on the one hand working to carry out operations against the Israelis, and on the other hand condemning them, and for this he paid the price and was assassinated by Sharon with the consent of US President Bush.

Marwan Al-Barghouti was the leader of Fatah in implementing and programming the struggle, and Fouad Al-Shobaki was Abu Ammar’s channel and tool for smuggling weapons across the sea to Palestine. He was put on trial for arms smuggling and supplying the fighters with their needs. He served his sentence and gained his freedom a few days ago, bearing the suffering of the prisoners and the joy of freedom that does not stop.